Start Right Here, Right Now

I took photos of our empty front and back garden to see what it all looks like mid-winter. Most of the garden space is paved, and we rent this house, so everything will have to go into planters, pots and troughs.

The front garden is completely paved, and is to the north of the house. On this side of the house, the sun casts less and less of a shadow as it moves toward mid-summer day (a long way away right now!)


Fortunately, the stone wall on the left doesn't have gaps for slugs and snails (unlike the walls in the back garden).


We live on a private road, so there's not many vehicles moving back and forth.


The back garden with a couple of leftover compost bags from last season.


The side bed is mostly planted with herbs. I'm going to move some into planters in the spring and try vegetables on the strip farthest from the (slug and snail infested) wall.


Looking away from the house, toward the south.


Outside the back gate.


And a space I've been saving for perennial plants.